Add-on locale usage statistics available

When the AMO Statistics Dashboard was first released, it contained views for all of the data available from add-on update pings at the time. With the release of Firefox 3 in mid-2008, however, a locale parameter was added to indicate the user’s browser locale.

We recently added support for this to our stats dashboard, so you’ll now be able to see the breakdown of locale usage for each add-on by selecting “Locales” from the stats dashboard menu.

The top 25 locales for all add-ons hosted on AMO are listed below, along with the top locales for Firefox proper. This comparison shows which locales are disproportionately interested in add-ons, both positively and negatively.

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Top Add-on Locales

Top Firefox Locales

1.

en-US – English (US)

en-US – English (US)

2.

de – German

de – German

3.

fr – French

es-ES – Spanish (Spain)

4.

ru – Russian

fr – French

5.

en-GB – English (British)

en-GB – English (British)

6.

es-ES – Spanish (Spain)

ru – Russian

7.

ja – Japanese

pt-BR – Portuguese (Brazilian)

8.

pl – Polish

pl – Polish

9.

it – Italian

it – Italian

10.

pt-BR – Portuguese (Brazilian)

ja – Japanese

11.

hu – Hungarian

cs – Czech

12.

zh-TW – Chinese (Traditional)

tr – Turkish

13.

zh-CN – Chinese (Simplified)

nl – Dutch

14.

nl – Dutch

hu – Hungarian

15.

cs – Czech

zh-CN – Chinese (Simplified)

16.

tr – Turkish

zh-TW – Chinese (Traditional)

17.

sv-SE – Swedish

sv-SE – Swedish

18.

es-AR – Spanish (Argentina)

fi – Finnish

19.

fi – Finnish

el – Greek

20.

el – Greek

es-AR – Spanish (Argentina)

21.

de-DE – German (Germany)

sk – Slovak

22.

pt-PT – Portuguese (Portugal)

nb-NO – Norwegian (Nynorsk)

23.

sk – Slovak

pt-PT – Portuguese (Portugal)

24.

ja-JP-mac – Japanese (Japan) (OS X)

id – Indonesian

25.

da – Danish

bg – Bulgarian

We’ll be posting additional statistics based on locale data in the future, as it’s very interesting to see how the popularity of specific add-ons can change drastically between locales.

2 responses

Thanks guys! This is something I’ve been waiting for for a long time. Being in the process of translating my add-on description into 19 other languages, I was wondering if it has any effect on the number of people who decide to use my add-on.

Sadly, although I was very excited about seeing locale statistics on my dashboard, I don’t really have an answer to that question. Because there are simply so many locales, too many graphs get superimposed on one another and it is difficult to read the data. A faaaaaar more useful tool for someone like me would be a simple pie-graph, detailing the current percentage of users per locale. The graph is just too small and difficult to read. And the CSV statistic file is also next to useless, since the names of the locales are too big for the size of the columns.